The World Health Organization (WHO) says that vaccinating people who have already been infected provides better protection than that offered by infection-induced immunity alone.

More than two-thirds of Africans have been infected since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a study by the World Health Organization (WHO). A figure 97 times higher than the confirmed and officially declared cases. Also on a global scale, real infections were 16 times more numerous than confirmed cases, the WHO said in this study published on April 7, 2022.

Africa has to date fully vaccinated 16% of its population, or 209 million people. Although the WHO and other agencies are trying to increase vaccination rates in Africa, these efforts have been met with low uptake, due in part to the idea that vaccination is less useful because the variant Omicron, now dominant, is less virulent.

The World Health Organization (WHO) says that vaccinating people who have already been infected provides better protection than that offered by infection-induced immunity alone.

Selon une étude américaine publiée dans la revue The Lancet, à l’échelle planétaire, 18,2 millions de personnes seraient mortes à cause de la pandémie en 2020 et 2021.